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The Advent message grew in the Corozal District, and numerous youths and elders had the desire and dream of having their own Seventh-day Adventist secondary school in the 1960s. In 1967, local elders Artemio Clarke and Marcial Magana with Pastor Winston D. Cunningham decided to make the dream a reality. They sought a government-issued license to open a secondary school through Mrs. Gwendolyn Lizarraga, the minister of education. Land for this school would come from the minister of lands, Florencio Marin.
Belize Adventist Junior College (BAJC) is the first co-educational Christian tertiary institution owned and operated under the leadership of the Belize Union of Seventh-day Adventist Churches with license to operate from the Government of Belize.1 It was founded in 1999.
The Grenadine Island of Bequia, a three-square mile island in area, forms part of the state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and has a population of just over 4,000. The primary Bequia Adventist School was established in 1952. The Bequia Seventh-day Adventist Secondary School began sometime around 1956. The Adventist church is credited with introducing secondary school education on the island of Bequia.
Betikama Adventist College is a day school and boarding college located on the outskirts of the city of Honiara, on the island of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.
Beulah College is the senior Seventh-day Adventist Secondary School in Tonga, located at Vaini, nine miles from the capital Nuku’Alofa on the island of Tongatapu in the Kingdom of Tonga.
The Brazil Adventist University–Campus Hortolândia (UNASP–HT) provides education from elementary through high school and collegiate levels for both residential and community students. It is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church and is part of the worldwide Adventist education network.
Brazil Adventist University – Sao Paulo Campus (Centro Universitário Adventista de São Paulo or UNASP-SP) is an institution that offers early childhood education, elementary, high school, and higher education in a day and boarding school system. It belongs to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Brazil and is part of the Adventist world educational network.
Brazil Adventist University, Engenheiro Coelho campus (Centro Universitário Adventista de São Paulo or UNASP-EC) is an institution that offers early childhood education, elementary, high school, and higher education in a day and boarding school system. It belongs to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Brazil and is part of the Adventist world educational network.
Brisbane Adventist College is a co-educational school offering all grades of primary and secondary education. It is located at 303A Broadwater Road, Mansfield, Queensland, Australia. In its annual report for the calendar year 2023, it reported a total enrollment of 575 students and a teaching staff of 51.
Bugema University was chartered in 2009 by the Uganda government and is a Seventh-day Adventist Church institution of higher learning owned and operated by the Uganda Union Mission. It is located 30 kilometers north of Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, on Gayaza-Zirobwe Road, in the Luwero District of Central Uganda. It is the largest Seventh-day Adventist school in Uganda.
Buresala Training School was the first educational institution designed to train workers that the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church operated in Fiji (and, in fact, the South Pacific Islands region).
Burman University is a co-educational liberal arts baccalaureate institution in Lacombe, Alberta, Canada, founded by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1907. It is accredited by the Adventist Accrediting Association and offers Campus Alberta Quality Council-approved bachelor degree programs. It is the only Seventh-day Adventist university in Canada and is sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada.
Busegwe Girls High School is located on the site of the first Seventh-day Adventist mission established in Tanzania in 1903. The location operated as the headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church from that time until 1978, when the mission office was moved to Arusha. Some of the buildings used by the school are those that were built by the missionaries. It is the only Adventist girls’ school in Tanzania.
Bwasi Secondary School is an Adventist educational institution located by Lake Victoria in Musoma Rural Council, Musoma, Tanzania. German missionaries first started it in 1909.
Cancele Secondary School is a former educational institution of the Cape Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in the Southern Africa Union Conference.
Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division Educational Institutions
Carmel Adventist College is a coeducational boarding school near Perth, Australia.
The Instituto Adventista Brasil Central (Central Brazil Adventist Academy) is an elementary and high school educational institution with a boarding school system. It belongs to the Seventh-day Adventist Church and is part of the Adventist worldwide education network. It operates in the territory of the West Central Brazil Union Mission and is located in Abadiânia, Goiás, Brazil.
Central Myanmar Adventist Seminary (formerly Mountain View Academy, or “Khone Myint Tha Academy”) is the only Adventist secondary educational institution in the territory of Central Myanmar Mission, located on Thang Daung Road in Taungngu.
Central Philippine Adventist College (CPAC) is a member of the global educational network of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Chebwai Adventist College and Schools is one of the oldest Adventist institutions in Western Kenya.